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- noun an artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation
- noun the product of an
epigone
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I have summed up the result of our collective work during the last five years, when Lenin retired from the party leadership and the reckless epigonism came in, at first living on the interest from the old capital, but soon beginning to spend the capital itself.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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